These selected resources can help you get started finding the right graduate school.

Starting Places & Essential Sites 

Petersons.com - "the education supersite," allows you to search over 30,000 graduate programs, explore financial aid and grant opportunites, download information about the GRE and other graduate examinations, take part in a grad school discussion forum, and lots more. 

Gradschools.com - search over 40,000 graduate program listings by subject and visit the student forum for additional grad school links. 

Yahoo! College Search - an excellent resource for locating colleges and universities offering degrees in specific programs.  

Check out some of the great links organized by Yahoo! under the headings Graduate Education and College Entrance, or click on one of the directory levels below to go to a Yahoo! search page:  

          Yahoo! Home : Education : Higher Education : Colleges and Universities  
 
The University Pages (from the University of Alabama in Huntsville) - offers a clickable U.S. map providing quick access to university home pages by state. 
 
Princeton Review Online - tips on applying to law school, medical school, business school, financial aid resources, program rankings, and other features.  
 
School Rankings 
 
U.S. News Graduate School Rankings - program rankings from the publishers of U.S.News & World Report magazine. 
 
Entrance Exam Information 
 
ETS.org (The Educational Testing Service Network) - official gateway to information about the GRE, GMAT, the Praxis Series, and TOEFL exams. Provides sample test questions, test preparation tips, and test registration information.  

GRE OnLine - introduction to the Graduate Record Exam, including sample questions, tips on getting started, and an online registration form.  

LSAT - the official Web site of the Law School Admission Council provides preparation information about the LSAT, as well as information on applying to law school.  

GMAT - learn about applying to graduate business school and preparing for the GMAT from the Graduate Management Admission Council's MBA Explorer site. 

MCAT - get information about the Medical College Admissions test from this official page by the Association of American Medical Colleges.   
 
Financial Aid, Grants & Scholarships  

fastWEB! - "the Internet's largest free scholarship search" indexes more than 400,000 scholarhips.      

FinAid - a huge site created by Mark Kantrowitz with links to practically every financial aid resource on the Web.  

Grants in Graduate Studies (GIGS) (at NYU) - a database of grants for graduate and post-graduate students, provided by U.S. government, international, corporate and private funding agencies.

Graduate Fellowships Database (at Notre Dame) - a database of recent fellowships, grants, and awards available to graduate students.

Scholarship Enhancement Program (at CUNY) - provides links to several scholarship and fellowship programs, including the Fulbright Program, the Mellon Fellowship, the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the NSF Graduate Fellowship, and others. 

Scholarship Search from College Board Online - find scholarships, loans, internships, and other financial aid programs that match your education level, talents, and background.  

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Post-secondary Education - offers several useful financial aid links, including The Student Guide for the current year.  
  
University Career Centers 
 
UNCA Career Center - Get the latest testing dates in the Asheville area for the GRE, LSAT, GMAT, and MAT, plus other graduate school information. 

William and Mary Career Services Online - provides lots of additional links for potential grad school applicants. 
 

Personal Contacts

UNCA faculty and staff members welcome the opportunity to discuss certain fellowships, programs, and other graduate school concerns with you.  Watch this space for a list of personal contacts on campus. In the meantime, contact Kerri Day Keller at the UNCA Career Center for more information.

Library Resources  

College Catalogs  

Ramsey Library at UNCA maintains a print collection of catalogs for North Carolina colleges and universities.

Selected Reference Works  

The following resources are available in the library's reference area. Clicking a book title will link you to its record in the Library Catalog.  

General 

America's best graduate schools. Washington, D.C.: U.S. News & World Report.  

Barron's GRE : How to prepare for the Graduate Record Examination. Hauppauge,   
N.Y. : Barron's Educational Series.   

Educational rankings annual. Detroit, MI : Gale Research.  

Free money for graduate school, by Laurie Blum. New York : Facts on File, 1996.   

Gourman report. Rating of graduate and professional programs. Los Angeles, Calif. :     National Education Standards.   

The graduate school funding handbook, by April Vahle Hamel. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.  

Peterson's annual guides/graduate study. Princeton, N.J. : Peterson's Guides.  

Peterson's grants for graduate & postdoctoral study. Princeton, N.J. : Peterson's Guides.  

Business 

How to prepare for the GMAT, by Eugene D. Jaffe and Stephen Hilbert. Hauppauge, N.Y. : Barron's.  

Barron's guide to graduate business schools. Woodbury, N.Y. : Barron's Educational Series.  

Peterson's guide to MBA programs. Princeton, NJ : Peterson's Guides.   

Peterson's GMAT success, by Janet Schaeffer [et al.]. Princeton, N.J. : Peterson's.  

Humanities 

Directory of M.A. & Ph.D. programs in art and art history. New York : College Art Association, 1995.  

Directory of MFA programs in the visual arts. New York : College Art Association.  

Money for graduate students in the humanities. San Carlos, Calif. : Reference Service Press. 

Social Sciences 

Graduate programs in journalism and mass communications, by David E. Sumner. Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University Press, 1996  

Graduate study in psychology. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association.  

Money for graduate students in the social sciences. San Carlos, Calif. : Reference Service Press. 

Sciences 

Chemical sciences graduate school finder. Washington, DC : American Chemical Society. 

Graduate programs in physics, astronomy and related fields. New York : American Institute of Physics. 

The Guide to graduate environmental programs. Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 1997. 

Money for graduate students in the sciences. San Carlos, Calif. : Reference Service Press. 
  

Searching the Library Catalog 

You may want to do a Keyword or Subject search in the Library Catalog. Some useful subject headings you might wish to explore include: 

Graduate students  
Graduate students -- Scholarships, fellowships, etc. -- United States 
Scholarships -- United States -- Directories 
Universities and colleges -- United States -- Graduate work